Additional Resources for Mormons: Who They Are, What They Believe

Use these additional resources to supplement your study on this topic. Because of the Internet's changing nature, a link may modify or get deleted. If you discover a bad link in the list below, please contact us!

The Mormons: Who They Are, What They Believe
This Project Connect booklet from Lutheran Hour Ministries helps you understand the Mormon missionaries who come to your door. It gives specific advice about what to say and what NOT to say when you share your faith with them.

Utah Lighthouse Ministry
This website by ex-Mormons Jerald and Sandra Tanner has a tremendous amount of helpful information about all facets of the Mormons.

Spalding Research Associates
This website includes research about possible sources Joseph Smith used for The Book of Mormon. It includes two interviews with an ex-Mormon.

Mormonism Research Ministry
This website provides detailed information that critically evaluates the differences between Mormonism and biblical Christianity to help Christians better understand and witness to Mormons and ex-Mormons.

Where Are the Ten Lost Tribes?
PBS article describing background for lost tribes of Israelites and tracing global claims for their location, including the identification of American Indians with the lost tribes, centuries before Joseph Smith

Why We Need Creeds
According to Joseph Smith's divine vision, God called the Christian creeds an abomination. In this interview, Jaroslav Pelikan explains how the creeds arose and why they are important to the church.

Is God an Exalted Man?
Here we see the Mormon system of thought that God the Father was once like us and is, even now, progressing forward in knowledge and power.

The Heavenly Mother
Mormons rarely talk about God's wife, but their writings speak of their beliefs that God has one or more heavenly wives.

The Unpardonable Sin
In his "King Follet Sermon," Joseph Smith explains the one unpardonable sin, when an LDS follower turns from his Mormon faith. (Scroll down to the sections "The Unpardonable Sin" and "The Forgiveness of Sins.")

Latter-day Saints and Biblical Christianity
Though the Latter-day Saints have softened their speech against traditional Christian denominations, they still believe and teach that Mormons are the only true Christian church on earth.